Attention Recorders! We are having a “lanyard drive” this year at our conference. If you would like to gather up all the old lanyards and plastic badge holders from past conferences, we will have a box at registration to collect them for re-use. (I found nine of the things in my desks! -Eric) This is an opportunity for us to reduce our “junk” and for the Association to save some money by recycling. Thank you very much!
We are happy to report that the Getting Started Guide for Indiana Recorders has been updated and published. Our deep thanks to the Education Committee for getting this accomplished! We will begin working on a 2020 revision of the Indiana Recorders Manual very soon
, with a targeted release date of July 31.
All Recorders are encouraged to join us for our annual conference on April 14-16, 2020, at the Hilton Downtown Indianapolis. We are expecting to have an agenda from the State Board of Accounts in early March, and our own detailed schedule should follow soon after. For now, you can find registration forms (for Recorders and vendors) on our Conference Materials resource page.
The Association of Indiana Counties is holding the 2019 Annual Conference from September 30 to October 3 in French Lick. The golf outing is at 11am on Monday (Sept. 3)
, and conference registration opens at 3pm.
Our affiliate meeting runs from 8am to Noon on Tuesday. Breakfast will be available, provided by AIC. Our association is providing lunch. And here is our 2019 AIC Affiliate Meeting Agenda.
, including the conference agenda, can be found at the AIC website.
We received this very nice thank you note from the St. Vincent Foundation for the donations to benefit the Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital!
The Indiana Electronic Recording Commission has completed its mission and published the Electronic Recording Commission Standards.
We thank all commission members for their work: Jamie Chapman, Daviess County Recorder; Nichole Keller, Clay County Recorder; Anita Mather
, Allen County Recorder; Jessica McAlpin, Underwriting Counsel at Fidelity National Title Group; and Kevin Quinn, Senior Vice President of Retail Lending at First Internet Bank.
Here are some of the slide show presentations from the Indiana Recorders Association’s 2019 annual conference:
Bob Grohol (eRecording Partners Network): e-Recording for Submitters
Joe DeLuca (Corporation Services Company): e-Recording – Getting Started
Nick Fankhauser (Doxpop): Blockchain for Smarties
Kevin Cook (Computer Systems
, Inc.): Blockchain – What does it mean for the Indiana Recorders Association?
Due to time constraints, Kevin was not able to deliver his full presentation. A report on the Illinois Blockchain Initiative‘s pilot project in Cook County can be found at this link.
Update: NEW this year! We will be trying out the Convene service to manage the event schedule, for those who wish to use it. There is an app for any smartphone that lets you see the entire schedule of the conference, as well as information about sessions, speakers, conference rooms, and other aspects. There is also a feature that allows attendees to check into the various sessions by using your smartphone to scan a QR code, which we will have outside the conference room, meaning that you won’t have to use a sign-in sheet. There is more information about Convene on the Thompson-Reuters website, and it is free to install and use the app. (In fact, it is free for the association to use. Thompson Reuters was also kind enough to enable the premium features for us to try out.)
To set up the app: Just install Convene (by Thompson Reuters) on your smartphone, register for an account, and then find event code IRA2019. Once you have that done, it’s really pretty intuitive how to use it. Give it a try now!
Registration is now open for the Indiana Recorders Association Spring Conference 2019. We will be at the Hilton Indianapolis Hotel & Suites on April 23-25. Here is a tentative agenda; we are still finalizing a couple of things:
Here are the registration forms for members and vendors:
Update: The State Board of Accounts agenda and presentations have been made available on the SBOA website. Please scroll down to Meeting Materials and click the gray arrow. SBOA will have training on Tuesday and Thursday. If you have any questions , please send them to SBOA and they will better able to have answers for you during the conference. Any questions for the conference or any issues you may have should be sent to Counties@sboa.in.gov
Hotel Reservations: Please contact the Hilton Indianapolis Hotel & Suites at 800-315-1906
, or visit this link, to make room reservations. The government/conference rate is $125 per night. Refer to the Indiana Recorders Association Block (group code INRECA). Check-in is 4:00 on April 23, check-out by noon on April 25. Conference reservations must be made by March 29 to receive the group room rate.Please mail your registration form and payment by March 29 to:
Indiana Recorders Association
c/o Mary Rhoades, Treasurer
126 East 3rd Street, Room 215
Mount Vernon, IN 47620
Greetings, everyone, and Happy New Year!
Dues for the Indiana Recorders Association for 2019 are now payable
, with a deadline of March 1. The attached PDF is fillable, so you can type in the necessary information, save the file, print it, and mail it along with the check for payment of dues to Mary Rhoades at:Posey County Recorder
126 East 3rd Street,Room 215
Mount Vernon, Indiana 47620
Please make sure to include the completed form along with your payment, so that Mary knows how to apply these funds.
Also, remember, or if you have not heard, due to a change in the conference fees for the Association of Indiana Counties fall conference, it is no longer necessary for the Recorders Association to increase our dues! So they remain at 1% of the Recorder’s annual salary, plus $20 per Deputy Recorder.
Congratulations again to all our new Recorders, and we hope everyone has a great year!
